Migrating Rule “use-auto-wait-cursor-on-your-windows-application/rule”

rules/use-auto-wait-cursor-on-your-windows-application/rule.md

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+---
+type: rule
+title: Do you use AutoWaitCursor on Windows applications?
+uri: use-auto-wait-cursor-on-your-windows-application
+authors:
+  - title: Adam Cogan
+    url: https://ssw.com.au/people/adam-cogan/
+created: 2014-03-14T02:02:00.000Z
+guid: 4aa7ca6d-e9fe-4d11-933a-bf2095c4efe4
+
+---
+
+It can be extremely tiresome to have to continually remember to set and unset the wait cursor for an application. If an exception occurs you have to remember to add a try finally block to restore the cursor, or if you popup a message box you must remember to change the cursor first otherwise the user will just sit there thinking the application is busy. 
+
+<!--endintro-->
+
+::: bad
+![Figure: Bad example - Cursor set manually](autowaitcursor_bad.jpg)
+:::
+
+::: good
+![Figure: Good example - Implemented AutoWaitCursor](autowaitcursor_good.jpg)
+:::
+
+AutoWaitCursor Class automatically monitors the state of an application and sets and restores the cursor according to whether the application is busy or not. All that required are a few lines of setup code and you are done. [See this great blog on how to use AutoWaitCursor](http://snipplr.com/view/24851/). If you have a multithreaded application, it won't change the cursor unless the main input thread is blocked. In fact, you can remove all of your cursor setting code everywhere!